PRESENTATION
BIOGRAPHY
Name: Kathryn Stwalley Parthun
Project Category: Conference Attendance
Project Description: Attend Hawaii STEM/Service-Learning Conference; attend a Ceeds of Peace workshop to develop a service learning and school-wide action plan related to peace and school culture.
Teaching Subject: No longer teaching; current position title: Director of Social and Emotional Learning
MICROGRANT PROJECT ABSTRACT
Issues addressed: Service learning in the science classroom
Topic: The purpose of attending this conference was to learn about the best practices in implementing service learning within the science classroom. This can be utilized in any science- related subject but is a great fit for classrooms that are already use science fair projects as an opportunity to augment student interest and exploration.
Rationale: I was excited to get to see other science teachers and students present their projects and their best practices for integrating service learning into their classroom. Ideally, the knowledge of science should be used to help others and the use of service learning is an important components of social and emotional learning.
CLASSROOM PROFILE
- N/A
SCHOOL PROFILE
- Large school district
- Suburban
- Traditional Public school
- Number of enrolled students: 8,060 (district-wide)
- Free/Reduced lunch percentage: 68.2%
- Demographics: American Indian 0.2%, Asian 0.6%, Black 19.1%, Hispanic 27%, Multiracial 7.1%, White 45.9%